Hello All!
I am in the process of doing a major systems upgrade to my rig, and I think I may have made an amateurish mistake. My system specs are:
Abit IX38 Quad GT Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor
Gecube Radeon HD3870X2 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI-e x16 Crossfire ready graphic card
Thermaltake Toughpower QFan series 650W SLI/Crossfire ready PSU
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
Mushkin Redline DDR2 2x2GB (4GB) 1000Mhz 5-5-5-12 ram modules
Vista Home Premium Edition x32
I have already ordered the parts, and they are due to arrive this week. The Abit board will support up to 8GB of ram, but it occurred to me today that Vista Home Premium x32 does not support 4GB ram. The real concern would be with installation of the operating system - what potential problems will I have? Is it better to install 1 or 2GB of ram pre-OS install, and add the remaining ram post-install? I could upgrade to Vista x64 - but a good deal of my other peripherals are not driver compatible (including my printer) w/Vista x64.
Is it possible to have 4GB of ram installed in my rig, even though Vista will not recognize it (i just hate the thought of having a whole GIG of ram that seems useless), will this cause me problems? Thanks in advance for any input - believe me it would be appreciated. Just trying to run damage control before there is any real damage.
I am in the process of doing a major systems upgrade to my rig, and I think I may have made an amateurish mistake. My system specs are:
Abit IX38 Quad GT Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor
Gecube Radeon HD3870X2 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI-e x16 Crossfire ready graphic card
Thermaltake Toughpower QFan series 650W SLI/Crossfire ready PSU
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
Mushkin Redline DDR2 2x2GB (4GB) 1000Mhz 5-5-5-12 ram modules
Vista Home Premium Edition x32
I have already ordered the parts, and they are due to arrive this week. The Abit board will support up to 8GB of ram, but it occurred to me today that Vista Home Premium x32 does not support 4GB ram. The real concern would be with installation of the operating system - what potential problems will I have? Is it better to install 1 or 2GB of ram pre-OS install, and add the remaining ram post-install? I could upgrade to Vista x64 - but a good deal of my other peripherals are not driver compatible (including my printer) w/Vista x64.
Is it possible to have 4GB of ram installed in my rig, even though Vista will not recognize it (i just hate the thought of having a whole GIG of ram that seems useless), will this cause me problems? Thanks in advance for any input - believe me it would be appreciated. Just trying to run damage control before there is any real damage.